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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EsgynDB vs. RRDtool vs. TimesTen vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.esgyn.cn

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

Esgyn

Tobias Oetiker

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1984

2015

1999

1998

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.8.0, 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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